Wow, it’s been a while since my last post. The good news is that there is not much to report. It has been a rough winter for Casey. It seems like she gets sick with something, then as soon as we get her over it she gets sick with something else. Luckily none of these have been too serious. It just seems as though it really is always something. I have heard a lot of other parents say the same thing about their kids. I think it must be the weather. We have still not seen winter show up. We have a few days where it is cool enough to turn on the heater (or so Tim says), but then all of a sudden it gets hot again and we have the AC back on. I know this is hard on my respiratory system so I can only imagine what this is doing to Casey.

Casey has missed a lot of school and therapy so far. I think she was out of school most of the time between Halloween and the end of January. She may have gone 2-3 times total during that period. We have finally gotten her back to at least going one of her two days a week. She did not go today. She seems to have some sort of stomach bug that kicked in last week. Sunday was AWFUL!!! We suctioned non-stop and she was just miserable. I thought if she could get a good night’s sleep she would be fine today. However, she was up all night. She was so tired this morning and tried to get some sleep. I decided to cancel school. Today wasn’t quite as bad as yesterday, but not great either. She just now (11:PM) went to sleep for the night. We’ll see how it goes. Hopefully she will be able to go to school in the morning.

It seems like all of my days are running together over the past few months, so I won’t even try to catch everyone up on all of the little details since my last post. On Casey’s good days she has been enjoying all of her arts and crafts that she got for Christmas, and watching lots of movies. We are trying to plan her birthday for April. It sounds far off, but it will be here before you know it. We can’t decide if we are going to do a party, or just something special with family. We have barely started to work out the details.

Tim has been busy with work and his wood shop out in the garage. He is getting really good with the wood tools. I have been working with a couple of groups (local and online) that support the special needs community(s). One group I work with just launched a new website. It is pretty exciting. If you want to check it out (especially any other SN families reading this) it is called Mommies of Miracles (MOM). You may recognize Casey as the “Trivia Tuesday” image on the main page. It’s an old picture, but very cute.

That’s about it for now. Our night nurse called out tonight, so I am on the night shift and should get back to work. As always, we hope everyone is well.